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...efforts—he simply is Bernard Berkman. His work in this film is in an entirely different league from his unfortunately career-defining role in “Dumb and Dumber.” Laura Linney has been great in so many recent movies (“Kinsey,” “P.S.,” “Mystic River”) that it is tempting to take her for granted, but that would be a mistake. Her turn as a desperate housewife affects the audience so much that one forgives her myriad infidelities...
Americans have plenty of opinions about teenage sexuality. What they don't have are many hard facts. Alfred Kinsey's celebrated sex surveys in the 1940s and '50s were breakthrough studies, but they were methodologically flawed and didn't delve into the issue of teenage sex. And while a major sex study out of the University of Chicago in 1994 did include some teens in its sample, none were younger than...
Freshman second baseman Annie Kinsey leads the team with a .379 average and Christina Khosravi is right behind her at .362, while freshman righty Ann Ferracane has grabbed most of the starts in the circle and battled...
...Alfred Kinsey published his report on Americans' previously concealed sex lives. The Nobel Prize in Medicine went to the Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Muller, for his work in developing the "miracle" compound DDT. Fourteen years later, during the Kennedy Administration, the New Yorker would begin serializing Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. George Orwell transposed two numbers...
Lincoln was by most accounts difficult to know; he struggled with depression and appeared more comfortable around men than women. But Tripp, who worked with Alfred Kinsey in the 1940s and died in 2003 two weeks after turning in his manuscript, sniffs out sexuality in the most innocuous exchanges, such as an 1841 letter from Lincoln to Speed after the latter moved to Kentucky. "It begins without a single personal item," Tripp recounts, "but drones on in a 1,575-word account of a local murder trial. Hard to find anything less personal than that, yet it is precisely this...